Showing posts with label Mobile - Broadband. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobile - Broadband. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
BSNL valued at $100 billion
If BSNL manages to raise Rs 40,000 crore by selling a 10% stake, it would value the company at an amazing Rs 4,00,000 crore (more than $100 billion). The market valuation of India’s largest private telecom operator — Bharti Airtel — is about $46 billion, followed by Reliance Communications which is valued at about $41 billion. Telecom stocks enjoy record valuations in India as the country, which offers the lowest cellular tariffs in the world, also boasts of the fastest-growing mobile market. India has registered average monthly adds of over 7.5 million for the last eight months even as analysts say this figure could touch the 10 million mark from Q2, 2008. From a little over 260 million telephone connections at present, it is projected that the country will have over 500 million telephone connections by 2010.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
WEBCAST TO GO
Right out of the box, the GoStream automatically connects to the RBN GoHost streaming media network to run your Webcasts. This seamless integration allows a non-technical user to produce and deploy professional streaming media events, while leveraging the same reliable, multi format network used by the largest media, education and religious organizations in the world.
Real streaming products and media services enable organizations to take full advantage of digital media by creating, sending and receiving audio, video and other multimedia over the Internet and corporate networks.
http://www.viewcastonline.com/download/NiagaraBroch.lo.pdf
Real streaming products and media services enable organizations to take full advantage of digital media by creating, sending and receiving audio, video and other multimedia over the Internet and corporate networks.
http://www.viewcastonline.com/download/NiagaraBroch.lo.pdf
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Google's new mobile-software strategy, which includes the Open Handset Alliance
Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter
His wireless-phone manifesto was the inspiration for Google's new mobile-software strategy, which includes the Open Handset Alliance.
A Trigger for Innovation
The paper spread like juicy gossip around the Googleplex. Wu's vision resonated because Google had become frustrated with phone companies that were blocking some Google applications from being used on phones attached to their networks. Like Wu, Google believes an alliance based on openness will trigger a new wave of innovation. "Tim helped us catalyze a strategy," says Chris Sacca, head of special initiatives at Google. "He's a singular force in this space. You're just seeing the start of what he's going to accomplish."
His wireless-phone manifesto was the inspiration for Google's new mobile-software strategy, which includes the Open Handset Alliance.
A Trigger for Innovation
The paper spread like juicy gossip around the Googleplex. Wu's vision resonated because Google had become frustrated with phone companies that were blocking some Google applications from being used on phones attached to their networks. Like Wu, Google believes an alliance based on openness will trigger a new wave of innovation. "Tim helped us catalyze a strategy," says Chris Sacca, head of special initiatives at Google. "He's a singular force in this space. You're just seeing the start of what he's going to accomplish."
Monday, October 22, 2007
US vs. Europe Wireless usage
US vs. Europe Wireless usage
I would like to point out that the above numbers are subscriptions and not the actual number of subscribers — often a point of contention. It’s also worth nothing that a lot of folks in Europe are pre-paid customers and that people have a habit of carrying more than one SIM card. Lastly, the comparison between the U.S. and Western Europe is going to get more interesting once we have complete information for 2007
I would like to point out that the above numbers are subscriptions and not the actual number of subscribers — often a point of contention. It’s also worth nothing that a lot of folks in Europe are pre-paid customers and that people have a habit of carrying more than one SIM card. Lastly, the comparison between the U.S. and Western Europe is going to get more interesting once we have complete information for 2007
Monday, October 1, 2007
Mobile Stats
Mobile usage Stats: - great stats site, it has stats for most IT categories -- link came from gigaom.com article
4 mln users to access mobile maps in 2007
The number of mobile subscribers accessing maps and downloading routes using their mobile handsets in Europe and the USA is expected to grow from 4 mln users in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60.8% to reach 43 mln users in 2012. Revenue from subscriptions and advertisement is expected to reach 512 mln euros by 2012 from 96 mln euros in 2007, a CAGR of 39.8%.
Youth to account for 30% of mobile subscribers and 25% of mobile revenues in 2008
According to In-Stat/MDR, the 18 to 24 cohort had nearly twice the affirmative response rate when questioned about interest in wireless entertainment services, such as wireless gaming. Looking at the services that had more potential business applications, we see less of a variance between the youth cohort and the larger market. The youth market will account for over 25% of wireless revenues and nearly 30% of subscribers by 2008
This blog section records real consumer business apps on Mobile devices:
Samsung has 50% of South Korean mobile phone market
- 350 phone models available in South Korea have music-playing functionality, while 159 models enable users to perform bank transactions and make payments with their phone. In 2006, more than 16 mln mobile phones were sold in South Korea. Samsung was the market leader in 2006, with about 50% market share, followed by LG and Pantech, In-Stat says.
4 mln users to access mobile maps in 2007
The number of mobile subscribers accessing maps and downloading routes using their mobile handsets in Europe and the USA is expected to grow from 4 mln users in 2007 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 60.8% to reach 43 mln users in 2012. Revenue from subscriptions and advertisement is expected to reach 512 mln euros by 2012 from 96 mln euros in 2007, a CAGR of 39.8%.
Youth to account for 30% of mobile subscribers and 25% of mobile revenues in 2008
According to In-Stat/MDR, the 18 to 24 cohort had nearly twice the affirmative response rate when questioned about interest in wireless entertainment services, such as wireless gaming. Looking at the services that had more potential business applications, we see less of a variance between the youth cohort and the larger market. The youth market will account for over 25% of wireless revenues and nearly 30% of subscribers by 2008
This blog section records real consumer business apps on Mobile devices:
Samsung has 50% of South Korean mobile phone market
- 350 phone models available in South Korea have music-playing functionality, while 159 models enable users to perform bank transactions and make payments with their phone. In 2006, more than 16 mln mobile phones were sold in South Korea. Samsung was the market leader in 2006, with about 50% market share, followed by LG and Pantech, In-Stat says.
Monday, September 10, 2007
iPhone
http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/06/09/wwdc-2008-keynote-live/#more-27826
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/06/09/confirmed-iphone-3g-will-need-to-be-activated-in-store-no-online-ordering/
1) there is no no-contract option of iphone 3G
2) $10 extra data plan that is $240 for 2-year contract
3) Tom-tom said they have GPS software ready to release $50?
4) can do websurf and talk same time since 3G allow data and voice ( when friend called where is near starbucks , go to his point in map and serach and tell him )
5) twice as fast ( web surf) as 2.5G
6) ATT yellowpages.com with GPS enabled ( say starbucks, mcdonald you get shops near by then say directions ..., schools ...) , ATT may sell GPS voiceActivated App as monthly fee $2/month
http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9963999-1.html
7) see what ATT execs say
"Less than 20 percent of our customers have integrated devices," Ralph de la Vega, the head of AT&T's mobile business, said during the conference call. "And at the $199 price point we could have mass adoption and put the iPhone in the hands of people who have never surfed the Web on a phone."
What's more AT&T sees iPhone users as highly valuable customers. And executives said that they are willing to make upfront sacrifices to get these customers on their network.
Specifically, iPhone users typically generate more revenue than basic AT&T cellular customers because they use more data services, de la Vega said. And with the new 3G capability and more applications coming to the phone, executives expect that to increase. iPhone users are also more willing to recommend the device to friends and family. And the churn or rate at which they drop the iPhone and the AT&T service is very low compared to customers using other devices.
"The 2G iPhone experience helped us understand what the customer characteristic are likely to be," Rick Lindner, CFO of AT&T said during the call. "These are high value customers."
The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone.
I do have one last thing.…What about developers? [applause]…We've come up with a very sweet solution.…We've got an innovative new way to create applications for mobile devices. Really innovative.…The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. It gives us tremendous capability.…You can write amazing Web 2.0 and AJAX apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services.
Steve Jobs: I’ll give you a concrete example. I love Google Maps, use it on my computer, you know, in a browser. But when we were doing the iPhone, we thought, wouldn’t it be great to have maps on the iPhone? And so we called up Google and they’d done a few client apps in Java on some phones and they had an API that we worked with them a little on. And we ended up writing a client app for those APIs. They would provide the back-end service. And the app we were able to write, since we’re pretty reasonable at writing apps, blows away any Google Maps client. Just blows it away. Same set of data coming off the server, but the experience you have using it is unbelievable. It’s way better than the computer. And just in a completely different league than what they’d put on phones before
iPhone Application Development
Its great news for us that Apple has opened the door to third-party developers to build applications for the first version of iPhone, said Andre Charland, Nitobi co-founder. Building apps on the Safari browser engine is ideal for Ajax developers like us. Its the perfect platform to work from because it allows us to build graceful, easy to use applications for our customers that have the potential to reach millions of iPhone users."
In Europe, They Like Their VoIP
Europe is poised to emerge as one of the regions where VoIP has a major impact.
According to market research firm Telegeography, consumer VoIP subscribers in Europe will reach 40 percent market penetration by 2011. That’s compared with the U.S., where total VoIP market penetration is forecast to top just 20 percent by the same year.
One of the main reasons for this is divergence: U.S. telecom incumbents AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) have more or less stayed out of the VoIP game, leaving the big push to come from cable operators such as Comcast (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (TWC). In the meantime, the independent voice service providers Vonage (VG) and SunRocket have fallen on hard times. Taken together, there were just 11.8 million VoIP subscribers in the U.S. at the end of the second quarter.
Conversely, the European incumbents — Britain’s BT Group (BT), France Telecom (FTE) and Deutsche Telekom (DT) of Germany — have responded to pressure from upstarts like Free, who have easier access to local loops, by becoming more active in their respective markets. And of course there’s Skype, which is extremely popular in Europe
China Mobile
China Mobile marketcap:Market Cap: 254.28B
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China claims to have launched the world's first 4G mobile communications system, even though it has yet to introduce 3G services. However Samsung of Korea made similar claims late in 2006.
In mid 2004 South Korea, Japan and China were reported to be collaborating on 4G technology. The joint initiative was aimed at creating phones for commercial use around 2010 and aimed at choking off the economic drain historically imposed on Asian cellphone makers by royalty payments for 2G and 3G technologies largely invented elsewhere.
4G phones will enable users to:
1. watch high-definition TV
2. browse the internet
3. hold video conferences
4. speak in other languages
Ki Tae Lee, president of Samsung's Telecommunications Network Business, said that Samsung hoped to "drive development and standardisation of 4G mobile technology ...and realise our dream to begin the 4G era." He added "We hope to work with associated parties for the successful commercialisation of 4G technology
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China Mobile marketcap:Market Cap: 254.28B
China Mobile Subscribers Surpass Total US Population
"The image is striking -- the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the U.S. using a cell phone," says Pohlig. "But it's important to understand that the per capita income of the Chinese subscribers is US$1700, not US$44,000 as in the United States."
Though Chinese subscribers rely on pre-paid phone cards and pay around 80% less than Americans for mobile phone service, their typical investment of $10 per month represents 7% (or more) of their monthly salary.
"Many Chinese spend a greater percentage of monthly income on pre-paid phone cards than Americans spend on food. This says a lot about the perceived importance of telecommunications in that society," Pohlig points out.
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Nokia predicts amount of mobile users in China to rise over to over half a billion in 07
The Finnish-based firm said in a statement that it also sees the ratio of replacement buyers growing from around 60 pct of the total handset device market, to over 80 pct, by 2010.
China is the world’s largest mobile-phone market, with 449.02 million users as of the end of October 07, according to government data.
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INDIA Mobile market
Indian Mobile Marketcap: 40 + 25 + 15 ( all other ) => $80 billion
Bharti Airtel stood at third with $39.65 billion (Rs 1,61,277 crore)
Reliance Communications $25.45 billion (Rs 1,03,519 crore)
The total number of mobile subscribers in India at the end of June was 185.13 million, compared to 40 million fixed-line subscribers.
asr: Adding 7 million users/month , for rest of 2007 7 x 6 = 42 milion bringing total 225 million by end of 2007
India Looks To Triple Wireless Users By 2011 - Among Fastest Growing Wireless Telecom Markets
Last year, 2006, India reported a wireless subscriber base of 149.5 million users. That’s a huge increase from the 85 million users India had in 2005. The most densely populated nation picked up upwards of 6 million wireless users every month, in 2006.
Dr Jagdish Rebello, principal of iSuppli Corp., projects a wireless user base of about 484 million by 2011 ( vs. China has 484 mill in 2007 so 4 years gap with china in #of subscribers ). Rebello attributes “A rise in per-capita income, the arrival of less-expensive phones, declines in tariffs, pro-industry and pro-consumer regulations enacted by the government and a host of other factors have been instrumental in driving this growth.”
Looks like India will be a wireless force to be reckoned with.
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The Research Room group published a free report with mobile subscription forecast s for 77 countries around the world. - posted 24-SEP-2003
- asr: what a great 3 year forecast predicted on sept/2003 ( post date of article ), the forecast is pretty close.
Important to note that the forecasts count mobile subscriptions - not users. This is why the penetration rates may differ from other research companies penetration rates. Many countries have their own dynamics - and often this may cause to inflate or deflate the penetration rate - but for the purposes of this forecast the penetration rate is considered to be Mobile Subscriptions divided by Population times 100. Countries such as Taiwan have penetration rates above 100% - this is due to the fact that subscribers often have up to 12 active accounts. Some attempt has been made to remove the "dead" subscribers from the numbers - the numbers are often reduced to counter-act the fact that some mobile subscribers keep accounts alive to inflate their numbers. If the mobile account has not generated any revenue for more than three months then the research room does not include this account within its forecasts.
An example, in order of % of estimated population:
# Canada: 18.6 million subscriptions, corresponding to 55.7%
# New Zealand: 2.6 million subscriptions, corresponding to 63.5%
# United States: 180 million subscriptions, corresponding to 64.4%
# Australia: 16 million subscriptions, corresponding to 77.4%
# United States: 180 million subscriptions, corresponding to 64.4%
# UK: 54 million subscriptions, corresponding to 88.3%
# Finland: 4.8 million subscriptions, corresponding to 92%
# Hong Kong: 7.1 million subscriptions, corresponding to 92.3%
With a not so big penetration, but of course a very high number of subscriptions is China, with 400 million subscriptions, corresponding to only 30% of the population.
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China claims to have launched the world's first 4G mobile communications system, even though it has yet to introduce 3G services. However Samsung of Korea made similar claims late in 2006.
In mid 2004 South Korea, Japan and China were reported to be collaborating on 4G technology. The joint initiative was aimed at creating phones for commercial use around 2010 and aimed at choking off the economic drain historically imposed on Asian cellphone makers by royalty payments for 2G and 3G technologies largely invented elsewhere.
4G phones will enable users to:
1. watch high-definition TV
2. browse the internet
3. hold video conferences
4. speak in other languages
Ki Tae Lee, president of Samsung's Telecommunications Network Business, said that Samsung hoped to "drive development and standardisation of 4G mobile technology ...and realise our dream to begin the 4G era." He added "We hope to work with associated parties for the successful commercialisation of 4G technology
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China Mobile marketcap:Market Cap: 254.28B
China Mobile Subscribers Surpass Total US Population
"The image is striking -- the equivalent of every man, woman and child in the U.S. using a cell phone," says Pohlig. "But it's important to understand that the per capita income of the Chinese subscribers is US$1700, not US$44,000 as in the United States."
Though Chinese subscribers rely on pre-paid phone cards and pay around 80% less than Americans for mobile phone service, their typical investment of $10 per month represents 7% (or more) of their monthly salary.
"Many Chinese spend a greater percentage of monthly income on pre-paid phone cards than Americans spend on food. This says a lot about the perceived importance of telecommunications in that society," Pohlig points out.
---
Nokia predicts amount of mobile users in China to rise over to over half a billion in 07
The Finnish-based firm said in a statement that it also sees the ratio of replacement buyers growing from around 60 pct of the total handset device market, to over 80 pct, by 2010.
China is the world’s largest mobile-phone market, with 449.02 million users as of the end of October 07, according to government data.
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INDIA Mobile market
Indian Mobile Marketcap: 40 + 25 + 15 ( all other ) => $80 billion
Bharti Airtel stood at third with $39.65 billion (Rs 1,61,277 crore)
Reliance Communications $25.45 billion (Rs 1,03,519 crore)
The total number of mobile subscribers in India at the end of June was 185.13 million, compared to 40 million fixed-line subscribers.
asr: Adding 7 million users/month , for rest of 2007 7 x 6 = 42 milion bringing total 225 million by end of 2007
India Looks To Triple Wireless Users By 2011 - Among Fastest Growing Wireless Telecom Markets
Last year, 2006, India reported a wireless subscriber base of 149.5 million users. That’s a huge increase from the 85 million users India had in 2005. The most densely populated nation picked up upwards of 6 million wireless users every month, in 2006.
Dr Jagdish Rebello, principal of iSuppli Corp., projects a wireless user base of about 484 million by 2011 ( vs. China has 484 mill in 2007 so 4 years gap with china in #of subscribers ). Rebello attributes “A rise in per-capita income, the arrival of less-expensive phones, declines in tariffs, pro-industry and pro-consumer regulations enacted by the government and a host of other factors have been instrumental in driving this growth.”
Looks like India will be a wireless force to be reckoned with.
___________________________________________________________
The Research Room group published a free report with mobile subscription forecast s for 77 countries around the world. - posted 24-SEP-2003
- asr: what a great 3 year forecast predicted on sept/2003 ( post date of article ), the forecast is pretty close.
Important to note that the forecasts count mobile subscriptions - not users. This is why the penetration rates may differ from other research companies penetration rates. Many countries have their own dynamics - and often this may cause to inflate or deflate the penetration rate - but for the purposes of this forecast the penetration rate is considered to be Mobile Subscriptions divided by Population times 100. Countries such as Taiwan have penetration rates above 100% - this is due to the fact that subscribers often have up to 12 active accounts. Some attempt has been made to remove the "dead" subscribers from the numbers - the numbers are often reduced to counter-act the fact that some mobile subscribers keep accounts alive to inflate their numbers. If the mobile account has not generated any revenue for more than three months then the research room does not include this account within its forecasts.
An example, in order of % of estimated population:
# Canada: 18.6 million subscriptions, corresponding to 55.7%
# New Zealand: 2.6 million subscriptions, corresponding to 63.5%
# United States: 180 million subscriptions, corresponding to 64.4%
# Australia: 16 million subscriptions, corresponding to 77.4%
# United States: 180 million subscriptions, corresponding to 64.4%
# UK: 54 million subscriptions, corresponding to 88.3%
# Finland: 4.8 million subscriptions, corresponding to 92%
# Hong Kong: 7.1 million subscriptions, corresponding to 92.3%
With a not so big penetration, but of course a very high number of subscriptions is China, with 400 million subscriptions, corresponding to only 30% of the population.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Which iPod are you ?
Which iPod are you ?
Maybe you’ve got thousands of songs in your music library. Maybe you have just a few. Maybe you like watching video on the go. Maybe you just wanna grab some tunes and run. No matter where or what you want to play, there’s an iPod made for you.
Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
Japan's Warp-Speed Ride to Internet Future
The opening of Japan's copper phone lines to DSL competition launched a "virtuous cycle" of ever-increasing speed, said Cisco's Pepper. The cycle began shortly after Japanese politicians -- fretting about an Internet system that in 2000 was slower and more expensive than what existed in the United States -- decided to "unbundle" copper lines.
For just $2 a month, upstart broadband companies were allowed to rent bandwidth on an NTT copper wire connected to a Japanese home. Low rent allowed them to charge low prices to consumers -- as little as $22 a month for a DSL connection faster than almost all U.S. broadband services
Symbian upgrades its OS, fights off rivals
Symbian upgrades its OS, fights off rivals
- In 2006 Symbian had 76% share of the smartphone market, thanks to its very close relationship with Nokia (which owns 47.9% of the company, rest being shared amongst other handset makers), which had 56% share of the global smartphone market.
The new OS will allow Wi-Fi 3G roaming. Push-email and VoIP run over WiFi when in the office and automatically switch to 3G when on the move. In addition, Symbian has added real-time networking ensures that VoIP is not interrupted when other IP-based services, such as web browsing or push email, make a connection.
The new version will give multimedia features a major boost. The camera features would now include image orientation, image distortion correction auto-focus such as red-eye reduction - 35 improvements you find in a typical standalone digital camera.
The system will have better connectivity with home computers, via wireless and The new OS upgrade supports multi-standard digital TV (DVB-H, ISDB-T) and standardized LBS.
- In 2006 Symbian had 76% share of the smartphone market, thanks to its very close relationship with Nokia (which owns 47.9% of the company, rest being shared amongst other handset makers), which had 56% share of the global smartphone market.
The new OS will allow Wi-Fi 3G roaming. Push-email and VoIP run over WiFi when in the office and automatically switch to 3G when on the move. In addition, Symbian has added real-time networking ensures that VoIP is not interrupted when other IP-based services, such as web browsing or push email, make a connection.
The new version will give multimedia features a major boost. The camera features would now include image orientation, image distortion correction auto-focus such as red-eye reduction - 35 improvements you find in a typical standalone digital camera.
The system will have better connectivity with home computers, via wireless and The new OS upgrade supports multi-standard digital TV (DVB-H, ISDB-T) and standardized LBS.
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